M 5.5 in Japan on 03 Jul 2025 07:13 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1488532
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.4164 , 129.395
Event Date: 03 Jul 2025 07:13 UTC
03 Jul 2025 16:13 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 03 Jul 2025 07:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qadp Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Japan Dismisses Earthquake Link to Manga Prediction 7/6/2025 5:07:00 PM.

) A powerful earthquake struck off the Tokara Islands in southwestern Japan on Saturday morning, but the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) swiftly dismissed any connection to a viral disaster prediction from a manga author. The tremor, with
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Is Japan’s latest earthquake connected to manga’s prediction? 7/6/2025 5:07:00 PM.

) A recent earthquake in southwestern Japan has no connection to a widely circulated manga prediction, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), which addressed public concerns on Saturday following the tremor. The quake, measurin
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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1600 GMT, July 6 7/6/2025 4:16:00 PM.

TOKYO -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck off the Tokara island chain in Japan''s southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima on Sunday, as more people evacuated from the area that has been rattled by a series of temblors.
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Significant 5.0 quake hits near Naze, Amami Shi, Kagoshima-ken, Japan 7/6/2025 3:34:00 PM.

Just 9 minutes ago, a 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Naze, Amami Shi, Kagoshima-ken, Japan. The tremor was recorded after midnight on Monday, July 7th, 2025, at 12:12 am local time, at a shallow depth of 11.60 km below the surface. Th
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),